Thursday, June 11, 2015

Index of Variants Discussed in Relation to the CBGM

Following a question on Facebook regarding whether the CBGM had influenced the conjecture at 2 Peter 3.10 (οὐχ εὑρεθήσεται), I thought it would be good to have an index of all the places where there has been discussion of the CBGM in relation to particular variants. At the moment, this is as close as we can get to having any kind of textual commentary on the Catholic Epistles. Reading through the examples from the editors really is the best way to get a sense for how the CBGM is influencing their textual decisions. So having them all in one list is handy.

I’ve split the list into discussions (a) published by those working on the Nestle/ECM text and (b) those who aren’t. The format here is pretty straightforward. After each verse reference I give the source number followed by the page number. Some of these are more illustrations than discussions, so I’ve tried to mark with an asterisk (*) those places where the source is most explicit about how the CBGM has influenced a particular decision. Most of them are, however, still very brief. Let me know if I missed any.

Update (3/2016)

the best single source for discussions is now Klaus Wachtel’s article on Acts published in the TC journal (2015). It’s #11 under Discussions by the Editors.

———. “Problems of a Highly Contaminated Tradition: The New Testament: Stemmata of Variants as a Source of a Genealogy for Witnesses.” Pages 13–85 in Studies in Stemmatology II. Edited by Pieter van Reenen, August den Hollander, and Margot van Mulken. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004.

Wachtel, Klaus. “The Coherence-Based Genealogical Method: A New Way to Reconstruct the Text of the Greek New Testament.” Pages 123–38 in Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task Past and Present. Edited by John S. Kloppenborg and Judith H. Newman. Resources for Biblical Study. Atlanta: SBL, 2012.

———. “Towards a Redefinition of External Criteria: The Role of Coherence in Assessing the Origin of Variants.” Pages 109–27 in Textual Variation: Theological and Social Tendencies? Papers from the Fifth Birmingham Colloquium on the Textual Criticism of the New Testament. Texts and Studies: Third Series. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2008.

Strutwolf, Holger. “Scribal Practices and the Transmission of Biblical Texts: New Insights from the Coherence-Based Genealogical Method.” Pages 139–60 in Editing the Bible: Assessing the Task Past and Present. Edited by John S. Kloppenborg and Judith H. Newman. Resources for Biblical Study. Atlanta: SBL, 2012.

B. Discussions by Non-Editors

Passages:

Mark 1:1 (1:1-11)

James 1.12 (6:102-103), James 2.4 (6:77), James 2.13 (6:108), James 2.16 (6:78), James 2.18 (6:110), James 2.23 (6:85), James 2.25 (6:101-102), James 3.6 (6:76), James 4.2 (6:77), James 4.17 (6:84), James 5.7 (6:108)

10 comments
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So--negligent scribes skipped over a negation, reversing the meaning in every single extant manuscript, but they didn't skip from ἡ to ἡ or from ἐν to ἐν at the other end of the verse in a few early manuscripts?

Thanks a lot for this index. I'm still trying to grasp the exact implications of the CBGM. These examples will be very helpful.

If I'm not wrong, a "Studienband" (volume with accompanying studies) is upcoming for the ECM edition of the Catholic Epistles. It is mentioned in the preface of the ECM (Catholic Epistles; 2nd edition) on pages VII (German) and XII (English) (dated December 12, 2012). The editors stated: "A third volume with accompanying studies will follow in the not too distant future." Does anyone know more about this volume, because it will increase this index immensely.

Ernst, the textual commentary has been promised since the very first fascicle in 1995. They even described it in the present tense: “In einem textkritischen Kommentar werden alle schwierig überlieferten variierten Stellen besprochen. // A textual commentary discusses all passages where difficulties are found in the textual tradition” (ECM1, pp. 1*, 11*).

That was written 20 years ago and while I know the editors would like to do something like this, I doubt they will manage to find the time.